Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Looney Tunes Christmas...from Hell!

While the subject matter is not very timely (considering Christmas is a full three months away and Halloween isn't for a month, either) but I saw this on Youtube and am amazed by how shockingly, eye-stingingly, ear-pollutingly bad it is. This is a Christmas show that Six Flags theme parks put on, and from what I understand, they've been doing roughly the same routine since the mid 90's. The song will sound familiar if you have the Christmas album "Christmas With The Looney Tunes", and the costumed characters are no surprise either.

But something new has been added! Apparently Six Flags decided to show some Christmas spirit (sadism) and give some failed broadway actress a job (Career-dooming gig). That's right kids, reach for the stars. Aspire to become an actor, and someday you, too can entertain millions (Okay, maybe just a couple hundred) with the magic of your own beautiful (American Idol-rejected) voice, accompanied by 4 people in Looney Tunes costumes lip-synching (Wait...they don't have moving lips) to a 15-year-old children's Christmas album.

Save your scorn for Six Flags for putting this crap on and Warner Bros. for allowing them to do so. The singer looks to be 18, not some failed broadway actress, and probably on her way to a broadway career. Many performers from the Six Flags stages have started their career performing next to Bugs and the gang, and have gone on to sing and dance on Broadway. I saw one such performer last night in Los Angeles in the new musical, 9 to 5.Leave the performers alone and go after the fools who put this stuff up.